I am really going to miss the solid week of game announcements. It was a perfect time to kick back, maybe even take a few days off, watch the conferences / gameplay demos and snark about everything with friends.

bread and roses. everyone deserves to look nice.

One problem SFIV and SFV have was that they didn’t progress passed SF3, SF4 was more like SF2 1/2 and SFV was more like SF2 3/4.

Since the comments keep coming, just want to let you all know that I edited this piece, including the headline. I, like all the others Kotaku editors, are the final call on what gets published, and sometimes we get things wrong. But this is not one of those times.

Why stop there? Why not just call her “Person” since by your reasoning, her gender wouldn’t matter either. Funny how most of the criticism around this article is focused on the word “Black” in the title. It makes it pretty easy to tell specifically what is triggering you all.

Yeah. Ignorant people like you. 

The people that the article bothers are bothered because it’s a black writer celebrating a black woman’s accomplishment. They wouldn’t be any less bothered if she had been more subtle about it, they’re upset that Ash had the audacity to be black and talk about this woman’s accomplishment from that perspective.

Lots of racists are about which is normal for this particular corner of the internet.

I appreciate you saying so. Thank you. I’m glad I was able to help you in some ways recognize and work to correct your biases. While it’s not all I want to do in my time here, it is something important to me, so I’m glad in this small way we’ve succeeded.

Ash, I understand that I’m just a stranger on the internet and this will be an absurdly long comment and you may skip it, it’s fine, I won’t be offended.

@silune put it better than I could elsewhere:

“Literally! “Talking about race makes me uncomfortable because I don’t understand the struggles so I’d appreciate if you’d stop ):”

Again: No.

I understand what you mean but usually when Black writers write about other Black people it’s to bring attention like “we in here!” It comes from a history of being excluded from places so now when we do it, it’s to show ‘we are not excluded here’. It’s the same thing when say an athlete does it like Simone Manuel…

You are such an unbelievable garbage monster

I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me.

No. For reasons explained by reading the blog.

Most of the article is about how the author took a particular interest in this person and this record because they were both Black women, and that was significant to her. That’s why the article exists. So it’s a key piece of information. If it was a random person she didn’t relate to, she wouldn’t have written a story…

If you read the blog, you’d know exactly why I did. And if you read that, and still can’t understand why it’s necessary, then I have nothing for you.

Ahh yes a racist.

allow me to explain you why: